Mark Paine wrote:
Odd problem, I dual boot debian / XP and have a FAT32 partition I use to transfer files between.When I write a file under linux to the FAT32 partition it is not seen under XP. Once wrtten in linux I can umount and the dir is empty, remount and the file is there - there are no errors. I am writing it as root. the partition has full read/write perms. ???? has anyone else had this ? googling did not seem to come up with anything.. files written under XP are seen perfectly under linux.One thing to be wary off with a dual boot system is how you shut down XP. Do you "Shut Down" or "Hibernate"? If Hibernate, I believe you can have problems as directory file structures are stored in memory (cache) and they are not refreshed when you go back into XP from running Debian which has changed them on the HD, but not in XP's hibernated memory. Thus XP does not see the new files as they have not read the updated directory info from the HD as it still works off what is in memory. This of course, can lead to all sorts of other file system corruption as well. Just a possible thought..... Mark P. -- ..sig - TBA CBR AU
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